NYCPHP Meetup

[Dan Cech]

Daniel Convissor wrote:
> Folks:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:19:23AM -0500, James B. Wetterau Jr. wrote:
> 
>>http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
> 
> 
> I feel that regex is way overblown.  Here's my ereg pattern:
> 
> '^[a-z0-9_.=+-]+@([a-z0-9-]+\.)+([a-z]{2,6})$'
> 
> --Dan
> 

The problem with that is that it will reject emails of the form:

Joe Bloggs <joe at example.com>

or variants thereof.

I'm trying to accept these addresses and use them in a sensible way 
using phpmailer.

Dan